Monday, April 6, 2015

Purple Pinwheel Quilt

At February's modern quilt guild meeting I was the winner of block lotto! Each month we make quilt blocks and bring them to our meeting where a winner is chosen randomly. The winner gets to take all of the blocks home to make something amazing!


January colors were shades of purple with a little bit of pink thrown in. There were two pinwheel block variations which added a fun little twist. We did a modern pinwheel

and traditional pinwheel


The blocks were fairly large and there were a good 20 or so. The simple thing to do would have been to just put them together but I wasn't feeling that... and I wasn't planning on a great big quilt. I decided to deconstruct the traditional pinwheels by trimming them from 11.5 inch blocks to 6 inch blocks. With the extra fabrics I put together 6 inch improv blocks and then laid them out haphazardly with the larger modern pinwheels. One of my goals this year was to make a quilt with differently sized blocks; this was just the ticket!


I loved that this project forced me to do things I wouldn't normally think of!!  Like use purple for instance, like a lot of purple! I decided early on that this quilt was going into my own collection. Since our living room is yellow with purple accents this was going to need a little bit of yellow... with my massive mustard crush lately my selected shade of yellow can't be much of a surprise!


I managed to get snails, mushrooms, flowers and birds into the backing! A pieced backing of course!


The quilting was done with my walking foot in a random wavy pattern in light orchid aurifil thread. It took quilt awhile to do but I do love how it looks in the end. Can't wait to see what it looks like all washed and crinkly.


It didn't seem right to leave the front a mustard free zone so I selected a mustard colored thread to attach the solid purple binding!  Just right!


This finished out to be a small lap size quilt, around 40x45. I'm planning to take it to our next guild meeting later this week and then we can use it!

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9 comments:

  1. Love the quilting - it gives such movement and flow to the quilt!

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  2. Love how creative you've been with the blocks! The improv pieces are perfect settings for the pinwheels! Very eye catching. Well done!

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  3. I absolutely adore your quilt. The varied sizes of the blocks, adding in the imrpov blocks, it just draws the eye. Love!

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  4. I love how you used those big blocks! It is so pretty!

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  5. What a fun crazy purple quilt! Lots to look at, and the quilting adds a nice windy movement.

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  6. I love how you repurposed the small pinwheel blocks. You have inspired me! You did a great job. It's beautiful.

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  7. What a fun idea! I love what you have created, well done!

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  8. Wow, so creative to deconstruct those pinwheels!
    It tunred out beautiful!!!
    Esther
    estgersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com

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